I have been programming in Javascript for a while and I am quite comfortable with it. And I know the basic concept of prototypes and I have also used them a few times. But one thing I can't figure out ...

By "prototyping language", I mean one which was chosen by virtue of it's relative ease of quickly accomplishing the sort of design changes common to prototyping in a particular context. (such as data ...

The more I program the more I realize that most of my time is spent writing scaffolding for programs so that I can debug them and then strip away the scaffolding for production.
The problem is that ...

Today I stumbled upon this page on the Mozilla Developer Network.
In it, not only it is stated that it's a bad practice to extend native prototypes, but also that there is only one exception to this, ...

I am currently working on a web application that is supposed to resemble an operating system with GUI (it manages processes and windows). I have several constructors which deal with different aspects ...

From what I've learned last term on SWE courses, a big part of it is writing documents, so it seems that a software requirements specification (SRS) should earn points for my end-of-course project.
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I am going through a tutorial on OOP in JavaScript (javascriptissexy.com using OOP in JS: What you Need to know).
The instructor is explaining the Constructor/Prototype pattern of object creation. I ...

May be this is a stupid question, but I'm kind of intrigued.
Being JavaScript a prototype based language, with its pseudo-class function constructors sort of half baked (remember JavaScript: The Good ...

So I'm learning about design patterns in school. Many of them are silly little ideas, but nevertheless solve some recurring problems(singleton, adapters, asynchronous polling, ect). But today I was ...

We're currently reconsidering technologies and frameworks to get more agile with "simple" RMS CRUD-based projects. In short, short-living things like this
Right now we have a custom extension on top ...

I know Javascript for some time, although I am not a heavy user, I know it the first from the time when Netscape was my browser. I pretty much understand the main things, but since JavaScript approach ...

Consider a case when I want to try some idea of an application. But I want to avoid investing a lot of effort in coding UI/work flows/database schema etc before I see that it's going to be useful to ...

I am a front-end developer. For many experiements I do I need to have a server that talks JSON with my client side app. Normally that server is a simple server that response to my POSTs and GETs.
For ...

I used to get PSD files and generate HTML prototypes from them which are supposed to be exact replica of these PSDs. The process I follow is simplest one generate plain HTML pages for each PSD.
But I ...

I've just begun using a popular, well-documented graphics engine, and was given a month to create some small programs and get familiar with it.
The library is huge, and there are sections I haven't ...

I understand this site is for programmers, and i have to ask specific coding question.
I am doing a software engineering degree and i have been asked to reference at-least 7 books in my definition of ...

I feel like anything that can be developed using OO/functional languages can be generally made 'better' using a prototype based language, because they appaer to have the best of them all: high order ...

I am reading through Javascript: The Good Parts, and struggled to get my head around the section on prototypes.
After a little google, I came to the conclusion that it is to add properties to objects ...

When constructing prototypes, should we also create appropriate unit tests as if we were writing production code? Would it make a difference if we knew in advance that the code was or wasn't going to ...

At our company, we frequently use third-party libraries and frameworks in our products. Often, we are faced with the task of evaluating one or more libraries that full fill similar requirements (in a ...

I'm developing a prototype of a web application. I want to only use HTML, CSS and Javascript. I prefer to use my text editor and not having to learn (or pay, for that matter) a new tool like Axure.
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I'm looking for a definitive answer to why extending built-in prototypes is so heavily chastised in the JS developer community. I've been using the Prototype JS framework for a while, and to me doing ...

Right now, I use Python for my quick scripts and prototypes (e.g. algorithms, my pseudocode is very Python-like as well). The oher languages that I am familiar with include Java, C, x86 Assembly and ...

I'm looking for a comprehensive (or as close as possible) list of all the prototype-programming style javascript work done to date. Does anyone know of such a list somewhere, or have the knowledge to ...

Recently I wrote an small prototype that uses some relatively new technology. Now I wanted to verify if this prototype is usefull and could be used in real world example. But now I have a problem, how ...

I've had an idea for a semantic model of computing that's theoretically sound but is also quite unusual. I'd like to quickly prototype a system to prove that it can work in practice. Most of my work ...